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Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.
Almost downloaded a gig of MPLAB to try to program a PIC using a pre-supplied hex file…
… only to discover there’s a tiny GUI tool for the PICkit 3 programmer I have. Win! Actually, I just used Windows as last time I tried this stuff on Linux it was really hard.
I definitely prefer AVR stuff, but I guess that’s what I’m used to.
I’m building an N7DDC ATU kit from eBay.
Overheard: I just don’t want another bit of communications equipment on the house!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGreat to see The Dork Web’s recent radio content – https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-dork-web-missing-links
This is one of my favourite newsletters at the moment, check it out if you like deep dives into miscellaneous nerdery (you know you do!).
It also mentions @DC7IA@chaos.social’s ham list, which is great 👌
→ View toot on mastodon.radioDCC looks interesting!
https://tapr.org/papers-of-the-2020-arrl-tapr-digital-communications-conference-dcc/
So many online conferences, so little time!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioReally enjoyed the bits of the GQRP online convention I made it to and looking forward to the recordings of the rest.
Some sessions had close to 300 people in attendance!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOK, so I don’t use the 30% keyboards I built in the past, but I still want one of these:
https://www.40percent.club/2020/08/gherkin-express.html
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGreat news, the GQRP convention will be making recordings available after the weekend.
Pretty sure I can’t be at my computer from Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 10:00 - Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 19:0, so that’s perfect!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe lineup for the GQRP club online convention looks good!
• “Building QRP transceivers” with Hans Summers G0UPL, designer and manufacturer of the QCX QRP transceiver.
• “HF propagation and QRP” with Steve Nichols G0KYA, author and chairman of the RSGB’s Propagation Studies Committee
• “Homebrew SSB Transceivers” with Pete Juliano N6QW, co-presenter of the Soldersmoke podcast and a prolific home brewer.
are just a few I could fit!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe maintainer of hamlib has asked for bug reports/feedback on whether a number of rigs (marked alpha, beta and untested) work with WSJT-X.
There’s a list at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37062608/
→ View toot on mastodon.radioMy 9 year old nephew has been making stop motion videos for a few weeks now.
Here’s the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBl2XzyE7rI
👌
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